-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexandro Colorado wrote: > ... Unfortunately the lack of education in IT has caused users to > adopt some very wrong uses of email. Attachements is one of these.
Education is definitely needed. Attachments are very, very inefficient for transferring files - that translates to higher costs and wasted resources. Another is that attachments are vectors for MSTDs as well as for the MS formats themselves. That latter is a direct problem for interoperability and long term preservation and access. A non-scientific check I made of student attachments showed me in that case that 0% of the attachments were necessary and that the MS attachments took ab out 100x the space on the harddisk in the mail box. In other words, ditching attachments can reduce your storage costs profoundly. My take on the problem in general is that since MS has flat out failed in the networked storage when it took over Novell's server market in 1999/2000, it has leveraged attachments to steer people away from networked storage. Samba and OpenAFS, especially the former, would get attention if MS brought people's attention to file sharing / networked storage since MS tools suck so badly in that arena - worse than the regular levels of crappiness. > ... 2. proivide OOo Art tools to ease and solve the problem. A very interesting and useful idea. However, the trick would be to find a way that won't cost millions and won't end up as Warez Central. Storage quotas are another question. Perhaps limiting storage to specific file types could ameliorate that problem and even be used to promote open standards. > ... I also think is time to get the art their own project and not > hang off marketing anymore. Should we have an art.openoffice.org? +1 /Lars -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGmS8IcCl7zCNgCqARAgkSAKCWAYUGMmkNHyxI093Z2jVQ1DggUQCbBvDW IlZmKhkWMBMulMjHcYxFTOM= =KOV+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
